Martin Luther King, X-Men and Magneto: A Vintage Episode

Our roundtable of historians, cultural critics and comics bloggers came together for a Martin Luther King Day episode 5 years ago. The world of X-Men and criticism has changed since but our panelists rocked and listeners loved it. So we brought this Classic episode out of the archives. Our guests: 

• Steve Attewell: He is the founder and writer of Race for the Iron Throne and writes People’s History of the Marvel Universe for Graphic Policy. https://twitter.com/StevenAttewell
• David Brothers – David works for a comics publisher, blogs about stuff at 4thletter.net, & tweets about everything at @hermanos. Find his life story at iamdavidbrothers.com.
• Gene Demby – Gene Demby is an American writer and journalist & the lead blogger for NPR’s Code Switch team.
• Véronique Emma Houxbois  writes Transmyscira column for Comicosity and hosts Read From the Rafters on YouTube as her drag persona Judith Slays. Named one of SyFy's Most Influential Women in Genre 2017. @emmahouxbois
• Kendra James – Is a writer and the Managing Editor of StarTrek.com. https://twitter.com/KendraJames_
• and me, Elana Levin, host of Graphic Policy Radio https://twitter.com/elana_brooklyn